October 3, 2019 • 35 mins
Ron and Carolina welcome the NHL’s Stanley Cup to the studio and find out what it takes to be the trophy’s handler.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who's that man joking in my ear? He's rung Burndy.
My dearest listeners, how is everyone this week feeling okay?
If you're listening at home, are you cozy under a blanket?
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You might be in your family's minivan airing out the
cigar smoke because your parents get back into town. How's
that going? And here at the studio, Carolina, how you doing?
I'm good? Nick in the booth, you okay? Good? Family
is good, everybody's good. Thanks, great, and the temperature is
good in here. Sorry for all the questions. I'm not
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trying to be a nosy Carolina. Not nosy Carolina, but
that's a phrase. Oh well, I just read a great book, Carolina.
You should check it out. It's called How to Win
Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It just came out.
O that book came out like a little over eighty
years and it's growing in popularity. I wanted to give
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it a shout out on the podcast so more people
could hear about it. Oh, it's actually one of the
most popular books of all time. I think in it,
my new friend Dale list six ways to make people
like you, and it's it's not what you think you
don't have to bring a you know, a brick of
cocaine for the next game night. In fact, the first
thing Dale says is you have to become genuinely interested
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in other people. Hence my questions today. Okay, is that
why you asked me if my nose was real when
I walked into I'm just saying, people have been talking, okay,
and we just know it used to be bigger, or
maybe it's the same size. I didn't do anything, so well,
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it's still pretty outstanding. You have an outstanding nose. I
don't know how you mean that anyway. The second thing
Dale tells us to do is smile. Smile, smile, smile, smile, smile, smile. Okay,
please see I'm smiling too much. Just close your mouth.
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Talk normally. It marks people love you. I'm gonna pay
you ten dollars to look normal, and I'll pay you
fifty to do the same. Okay. Thirdly, you have to
say a person's name a lot to them. It is
the sweetest and most important sound in any language. That's
certainly true. I actually fall asleep to a tape of
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people saying my name. Different recordings of people at award
shows airport, loudspeakers, lawyers at my deposition hearings. Just get
me relaxed. Oh wow, well, maybe you know what. You
can use some of these skills to talk to the
CEO of Fair today. Who the CEO of Fair? A
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representative affair? He's we're having them in for a few questions.
Oh okay, what's his name? He's walking in? Okay, quickly,
what's his name? Come on, Carolina, he's the money man
that he's in the room. His name is Scott, Scott Painter.
He's in the room, Scotty. Please, welcome to the studio.
Scott Painter. Thanks for joining us. Hey, Ron, how are you?
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I'm great, I'm great. Thank you so much for coming in. Yes,
thank you. What a beautiful name, Scott Painter. Glorious to
the lips, Scott, Scotty, Scott, take it easy, ah, Scott, Yes,
Scott Painter. Never forget that name. We want you to
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stop and keep going. Is it what's the origin of Painter?
Is that Dutch? I think it's a German and Scottish. Well,
we learned something new every day and thank you for
that information. Scott Painter, CEO, founder of Fair. And so
what what does fair Auto. Do Well, we are a
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way to get a car entirely on your phone. Oh,
that's right, because we've been talking about that. Those are
the advertisements. Yes, anyway, you get the phone and you
get a car, you get a car. Well, it really
comes from just wanting to make the whole process of
getting a car a lot easier. Most people don't even
want to go into a dealership anymore, not anymore. No,
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the idea of doing everything on your phone, just like
everything else in modern life, was really where the whole
thing started. A lot of dealerships frankly, they smell, you know, No,
I'm just saying they stink. Really, that's what I've come to.
I mean, I think they smell like new car, which
for people is usually oh I hate that smell. Oh
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do you? In fact, just the thought of it, okay,
makes me want to vomit. That seems dramatic. Why don't
you take a sip of water and Scott Scott paid here,
he's here with us for just tuning in a lot
of people just tune into a podcast. Did you know that? Um,
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just for my records? When does my car come? Scott? Well,
you've just got to get on your phone and pick
one out. No, no, no, I mean my free car,
the one I was promised. Who promised you that? Oh? Okay,
so it's a surprise. That's sweet. Okay, when I get
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my free car, what should I do? Run? I don't
think that's happening. Okay, it's a surprise, um Scott. The
question is why do you like working at Fair? I mean,
you created it, so it's your baby. Well, but where
where's the satisfaction. I think great companies and great entrepreneurs
solve a problem, and I think buying and owning a
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car is complicated, time consuming, frustrating, and most modern customers
just have said they don't want to do it anymore.
I mean we're all the hassle. Yeah, yeah, the confrontation,
the commits. So what we created was really a solution
for that that doesn't require any negotiation, any confrontation or commitment.
You can take the car for as long as you want,
and then when you're done with it, you just simply
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let us know and we pick it up. What's the
shortest amount of time someone has leads to car for
if you had anyone to just for like five minutes.
It turns out when humans get a car that they like,
they sort of move into it. And even though we
don't have a term to our contract, the average customer
is keeping the car for almost two years. Wow. Ron
usually can't afford cars at dealerships, but he loves negotiating.
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I don't know why we need to bring that up.
You've stayed at that dealership. I love. I love to haggle.
I love the back and forth, waste salesman's time for
hours and then says just kidding and leaves. I like
to go in. Let's say a car is being sold
for thirty five dollars. I like to go in. I'd
like to look them in. They they get excited because
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it's round barrigunady of course, Um, and I'll go I've
got two grand cash and I'll slide it across the desk,
real slow, in a Manila envelope and they usually kick
me out. But um, but there's a thrill to that,
just for me. But you're saying most people, it's intimidating
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to them. For most people, the average car costs about
a third of their net worth, so the car requires
financing as well. And the idea of going in and
you know, sort of negotiating with a dealer is certainly
something that modern consumers don't like a lot third of
their net worth. We'd love to have a net worth
in general. So as a result, most people end up
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taking a car based on what they can afford on
a monthly basis. All the cars that we've got in
the app are presented on an all in, month to
month basis, so the car comes with a warranty, roadside assistance,
and standard maintenance, so you don't have to worry about
any of that. And we now also even offer auto insurance,
so it's truly a single cost of ownership except for fuel.
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Let me ask this question, what if someone has a
negative reaction to their car and destroys it? Have you
have you come across that. I mean they just beat
up the car exactly. They take out a tire iron
and they just smashed the windshield, and it's like, oh,
they tricked me. I never wanted this car. I don't
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think that would be good for anybody. That's not good
for us. And probably what you'll catch either, right, you'll
catch them. Ultimately, we will get there. I knew it.
They're going to get you, So don't do that any
Herbie fully loaded situations Herbie fully loaded where the car
goes to life? Oh right right? Was that a Disney movie? Yeah?
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And then it was a Lindsay lowhand remake. I want
to get back to my car that I'm getting my
gift car? What color is it? Can you guys just
tell me? So? Is it going to have a ribbon
on it? I want I don't know if this is
a conversation for now, and when I I it, can
I keep the ribbon on it to show off that
I got a free car. I want you to be
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prepared for there to be no car in what scenario
and and the scenario of reality. I want you to
be prepared for a car not to show up today. Okay,
I'm gonna put air quotes around that. Um Scott, do
you miss One of the great things about car dealerships
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are the the you know, the the inflatable floppy man.
You know what I'm talking about. That gets your attention listeners.
You you probably will picture. How would you describe the
inflatable floppy man? Carolina? A body of skin without a
spine or bones in it? Yes, you see it end
and that's something or you'll see like an inflatable gorilla
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or something like that. You know at at dealer do
do you get feedback that people are missing seeing those things?
They're still out there, believe it or not. The way
that our our business works is we rely on dealers
as partners, but we buy the car from them and
simultaneously let our users use the vehicles so they don't
have to go through any of the complication or the
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confrontation with the dealer. We handle all of that. I
want to get one of those inflatable guerrillas just to
put out in front of my condo. That I think
we can do, though, we can arrange for that because
they're not in demand nearly as much anymore. Okay, So
if I'm not going to get a free car from
you guys, free guerrilla would be I mean to have
that generator blowing throughout the night. Go Go, Go, Go
(10:31):
Go definite. But I think that I think that's a
nice trade off to have a fun inflatable guerrilla for
the whole neighborhood to enjoy. It will be a conversation. So, Scott,
what what else would you like our listeners to know
about Fair Auto? You know, I think that the idea
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of going into debt to buy a car, which is
what we all have to do. Um. The car is,
for the most part, nine cars are a depreciating asset. Absolutely,
you drive it off the lot, it plummets. It does.
And almost all the risk in the car business has
been shifted to consumers over the last hundred years. We
make them go get a car loan and go into
debt to cover all that risk. And I think the
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idea of becoming obligated to a car is really going
to be obsolete. I think the idea of being able
to get access to mobility on a month to month
basis just like everything else in modern life. UM. I
have a sixteen year old son. He went through the
whole process and he was just like dad before fair
how did kids get cars? And it makes a ton
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of sense. I mean, he doesn't have a job, he
didn't have a bank account, he just got his driver's license.
He goes through all these things and now all of
a sudden he can get access to a car with
any kind of credit history and he pays month to month.
It's a great way for him to get a vehicle
until he gets ready to go to college. Can you
use PayPal? You can use any form of payment that's
different Venmo, PayPal, Apple, pay all of It, pokers, anything
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that we can do to get so poker chips from
a casino. I think ultimately we got to look into
every public good. Ron has a velvet bag of a
velvet bag I have. I have a prediction that's going
to be the currency of the future is poker chips
from Las Vegas casinos. You had an amazing night in Vegas,
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did and you just forgot to cash your chips. I
was on such a roll, Scott, Oh my gosh, I
was at the crabs table for eleven hours. You are
a diaper. I wore a diaper, and oddly enough, this
is the first time we've met. But I kept screaming
at the top of my lungs, Scott Pater as I
threw the dice. Yeah. I don't remember that part, but
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I believe you. Okay, I made that up. I was
just trying to impress you. But yeah, I made about
fifty dollars and I keep it in my mattress. And
you said, no, I have to go. I have to
take off my diaper as soon as possible. And I said,
maybe you want to cash out your chick, no should
go yeah. Well, but with a company like Fair you
get to keep the fifty yes and then just get
the car on an as needed basis. So the auto
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industry are they mad at you for what you've created.
We're actually a sale to a car dealer or to
the manufacturer, so they're actually quite happy. They don't have
to pay for advertising, which is usually the largest expense
in selling a car. So when we buy a car
from a dealer, it's a sale for them without any
advertising expense. I remember when I was living down in
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San Diego, I used to record jingles for Phil Everton
Ford and that was part of their big advertising budget.
Phil Everton Ford, It's a great day to buy a Ford.
Phil Everton, and this was a career. I just what
do you mean? It was No, it was augmented my
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salary as a broadcaster. Got it. Come on down to
Phil Everton. He won't cheat you. He's honest, Phil. I
love it. Phil Everton. He he's honest. Even though he
only has one leg. He had he only had one leg,
and he wanted that in the jingle. Well I improvised
that one yeah, and I made sure they couldn't erase
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the tapes, and then I said, if you don't use
this one, I'll sue you. But that's what I had
a lot of juice back then. Yeah. Um, Scott, we
can't thank you enough for coming in talking to us,
enlightening us, enlightening us. It's it's it sounds like an
amazing service, very easy. Can let me ask you this
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final question? What if I were to purchase I guess
it's technically, Elise, it's it's technically elease or rental depending
on the state that you live in. Um, but you
know both are the same thing. You're not buying the car,
you're paying for the depreciation on a monthly basis. So
if I if I get my new car, I'm so excited.
And then I opened the trunk and I find a
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couple of kilos of cocaine. Do what happens? Then? Do
I get? Is that? Is that a problem that's been
happen It's it's not been a problem yet, Okay, until
we should think about all the possibilities out there that
could happen. Well, Scott Painter, thank you so much. CEO
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and founder of Fair Auto with a beautiful name, Scott Painter,
Scott thank you for coming in and visiting us here
in person. Ron, thanks for having me and uh. I
think we could probably work something out on that car
if you really go into the pick something. Okay, make
a big deal out of that. I think that could
work out interesting. Well, Oh so Carolina, you're wrong. I
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am getting a free car, maybe for a month or two,
you know what, something like that. If it's for one hour.
If I can rub it into Carolina's face that I
got a free car, I would dance a jig. Scott,
thanks again, thanks for coming in, and we'll be right
back after this and welcome back to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. Okay,
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raise your hands if you like sports. Okay, I see
some hands. Now, clap your hands if you like trophies.
Any trophy lovers in the house here. So when was
the last time you want a trophy? Carolina? I don't
want to say. Oh, come on, just tell you know.
(16:26):
We're family here. Um at one second place at the
Sarah Lawrence Slam Poetry Contest. Jesus Christ, Okay, forget I asked, well,
we have such a treat. The Stanley Cup is the
oldest trophy in sports history, still being competed for by
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professional athletes and I am literally looking at it right
now in all of its glory. It's amazing. It's on
the table right next to me. And of course we
have with us today Mike Bolt. Mike is the keeper
of the cup. He is the man in charge, and
today we get an inside scoop on how he manages
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to guard that cup, the Stanley Cup. Mike, thank you
for joining us here on the podcast. Ron, thanks for
having us The Stanley Cup. Wow. Well, I mean every
day you wake up, you turn and look at that thing,
right because you have to be around a twenty four hours. Yeah,
I sleep with one eye open all night. You're very vigilant.
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I had to guard it every day, Which leads me
to my first question, Um, do you think you're trustworthy?
Trustworthy enough to guard this? I don't put I guess
the NHL in the Hall of Fame do because you
are being trusted with this outstanding I mean, does that
ever make you kind of, you know, lose your mind slightly?
(17:51):
Actually it does sometimes, Yes, I mean especially when we're
traveling and flying around. Uh just the other day we
couldn't find it in Denver and it was a little stress.
Oh den Yeah, we were in Denver doing some press
and bouncing around promoting the playoffs, and uh, I get
to Denver and waiting for the bag to come out,
and it's not there. It's not there, and I'm like, okay,
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So I go and start dealing with the airlines and
they can't tell me where it is. And so luckily
I have a contact with Air Canada and I picked
up the phone and they could tell me where it
was and apparently it was in Denver, but it was
stuck on Wow, the Caver belt. Did you ask the
officials there the Denver boat to shut the airport down?
I did, actually, but they didn't didn't listen, okay, because
that's what I would have run out onto the tarmac
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and tried to stop planes from landing. You know, it's
funny when when we're in the airport, so I do
open it up, and it's always amazing to see the reaction.
Just actually, when I flying up to come up here
last night, I was checking in, it was really quiet
and I took it out for two employees to see it.
Within literally twenty seconds, there was about people around. They
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just got just it's such a yeah, it's such a
it's a magnet. I mean, it just attracts people. And
I been doing this for twenty years, I kind of
know better, but I just laugh. I'm like, oops, that's
my mistake. I mean, when you brought this beautiful trophy
into our recording studio here, I squealed like a fourteen
year old girl. It was weird. It was like I
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thought you had stepped on something. You thought I'd seen
a ghost, because that's how I react if I ever
see a go I see a lot of ghosts. Yes,
and that's with you that one time. That's what usually. Um.
Have you heard of an ice jackal before? By the way, No,
I haven't. Okay, well let's just leave it at that. UM,
now correct me if I'm wrong. But I've heard that
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this trophy is so revered, revered, revered, revered by NHL
players that many who have not won it they refused
to be in its presence. Is that is that accurate?
Pretty true? I mean there are players that come around
it but won't touch it. Um, quick story. Scott had
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won three Stanley Cup Scott need Amer, he loves the
podcast Go Ahead, O excellent and his brother Rob when
they won together and oh seven, we were up at
their their summer house up in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and
Rob kept telling people I love it up there by
the absolutely gorgeous. Is that cottage country? Is that the
same as a cottage country? That's God's country? Okay, alright,
have you ever been to yellow Knife? I have? Okay, continue, Yeah,
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I got a time share and yellow great, Um, Carolina,
you would love yellow Knife. They're flat and cold and flat,
yeah exactly, but it's it's a cool place. That's my
body type, flat and cold. Nothing. But Rob is telling
everybody they'd never touched the cup, and when his brother
brought it back and I said, well that's not true. Rob,
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you kept kind of rubbing up against it, maybe not
on purpose, and you know, so the superstition of touching it,
you know, didn't really affect you because you obviously wanted No. Seven.
But there are players that definitely will not touch it
until they win it, and guys that have retired still
feel weird about being around it. Meaning the players who
were retired who didn't didn't win, they're like, yeah, Wendell
Clarke played for Toronto, great player. UM when he first retired,
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didn't want to do a picture with it. He says
he'll do pictures, but he will still not touch because
I never want it. I will never touch the Stanley Cup.
For the female listeners out here, I feel like we
should follow any hockey player's name with single or in
a relationship, okay, because you find them dreamy, don't you?
Who is the dreaming this guy in the NHL Carolina
frequently goes to King's games and she loves blowing kisses
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at the players on the ice. There's a rugged handsomeness
to hockey players. They look like they could build you
a house and and get into an unprovoked fight for you.
Now it knows you have you have white gloves on.
You have to handle the cup with white gloves. Yes,
it's part of the prestige, the respect for it, the protocol. Yeah,
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I I didn't win it. I just look after it.
And you don't You want to make sure that people
when you're carrying it outside of the buildings and you
know in the public, people know that it's you're the keeper,
not the guy that wanted and the white gloves. You
mentioned protocol. But I also read somewhere in my research
that it's because, uh, once someone was eating peanut butter
out of a jar and they were like, oh dude,
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look it's a standy cup and they grabbed it and
they got peanut butter all over it. Is that I've
heard that story, but that's get a lot of stuff
all over it. I mean ice cream Sundays are eating
out of it. So there's been some close calls. Oh yeah,
a lot of ice cream in the summer, a lot
of cereal out of it, and a lot of adult
beverages from Margarita's beer, champagne wine spritters have been made
in it. I'm thinking right now, a Scotch chips and
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guacamole fill that ramful of guacamole. Lobster bisc has been
in there. Uh, putine, which is French fries, sushi babies,
A couple of babies have been baptized in it. That's adorable.
That we had a penguin in there once, a little
baby peng Did someone steal a baby penguin? We went
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to a zoo, Yeah, we did, the Pittsburgh Zoo. Actually,
you guys told it. They brought it over to it.
They got back with his mommy. Well that's what they
told you. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire any connection?
No good question. That is a good question. Actually, But
you do you do like Harry Potter though, I mean
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you can't say you don't. J K Rally. I mean
she had a dollar to her name and she created
a whole world. I mean, if you say anything about
j K, you're gonna hear about it. Goblet of Fire,
great one. Have you ever gone to the supermarket, picked
up a few things, come home and then realized you
left the Stanley cup in an apple barrel? You can
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be honest because we can addit to what we actually
have taken it to the supermarket a couple of times.
I did it. Once with Doug Waite in uh Long Island.
The White family wanted to reenact the picture of Angeelie
Jolie doing they get through something on the tabloids, and
they wanted to reenact the shopping cart thing with the
cup in it, and so we did that, and then
with Billy Aaron, who was an assistant GM with Pittsburgh,
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brought it to the supermarket to pick up some beer
for his parties. We had the cup in the middle
of the cart and loaded all the beer around the
cup along with a couple of bags of chips and
then getting the reaction when you're going shopping with the Stanley.
The cup was pretty cool, but he's got to turn
a few heads. Yeah, but we didn't leave it in
the apple sections. Billy Garran's party too. I forgot. They
were bobbing for apples out of the cup to Billy.
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Typical Billy Garran. You know, Billy has the craziest party,
he really does. I've never been invited, but they are
good parties. Why why is it called Stanley? Why not
Seymour or Ralphie. It's called Stanley because of Lord Stanley
was a gentleman who bought the trophy in eighteen forty
dollars and sixty seven cents. Was he a real lord
or would you Jesus call himself Lord Stanley? Lord? And
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now he was a he was a real lord. Uh.
He was from Preston, England. His actual family seal is
on the cup. He was a Governor General of Canada
back in the late eighteen hundreds. And it was his
children actually that convinced their dad to buy the trophy
for the Amateur Hockey Association. And another little trivia effect
that no one really because he hated hockey himself. He
really didn't know it. But his kids grew up playing
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the game in Canada, coming over from England. The kids
loved the game and then their their father kind of
got liked it. And Lord Sanders like, this game will
never survive, I declare it. He actually never saw the
trophy even presented in He was always back, he went
back to he was already back in England doing whatever
he did, his Lord's stuff back in Anger Night people.
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He never saw the cup presented ever. And he's the
only member of the Hockey All of Fame that had
nothing to do with hockey other than donating the trophy. Wow,
Lord Stanley, well, I'm sure he's smiling down on the
cup right now. We actually took it over to England
and oh six and put a plaque on the building
and no one came and visited, right. Actually was pretty crazy.
All the press was there and and stuff like that,
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and we had a lot of the hockey fans and
this tour bus was going by and after Phil and I,
my boss Phil Pritchard, had done some press, we stuck
back and this tour bus went by and somebody goes,
what's going on, and Phil goes Prince Williams in buying
a ring or something like that. This is way before
he got married, and so he started the big stir
that thinking Prince william was getting engaged. Prince I was
not invited to the royal wedding, tried to sneak in, Mike,
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what is your favorite part of a hockey game? For me,
I'll just say mine's the music. I love the Oregan music.
Don't Done Done? Yeah, don't ye wine would be uh
favorite part of a game. I mean in playoffs, it's
overtime for sure. Overtime hockey, sudden death for those of
you who don't adine the adrenaline. Yeah, yeah, we get
(26:38):
five minutes of in the regular season and then we
have sudden death right to I mean a couple of
nights ago we had two overtime periods. Um, that's a
lot of hockey. That's a lot of hockey. I mean
we played normally sixty minutes. Some guys sometimes we can
play a hundred twenty minutes of hockey and one night
and then the guys, I don't know how they do,
they gotta play the next night. A lot of times. Yeah,
it's uh it's a lot of wear and tear on
their bodies. I remember one time one of the guys
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in Chicago is telling me, when they're flying back from
a game they're they're playing, look like an emergency room
with all the I V s and ice pack slash
guys getting stitched on the plane. I mean, there was
blood gauzes everywhere, and one guy had his gallbladder taken
out right Peter Forsberg the black market and they and
they didn't have enough surgeons, so a lot of the
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players operated on each other. That's what I read. Oh
my god, they are tough, tough ombreise. So Mike, what
I mean, what do you say to those dreamers out
there who are listening and they want to travel the
world with Stanley one day? Come come to the hockey
allow fan, We'll get a job and maybe I'll be
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fortunate enough to be one of there's a training program,
there's a apprenticeship. It's huge. You know, this job took
me all three minutes to get. Okay, the people know
my boss called well, my now, boss, I was in
the office. You got a minute, And I was like sure.
I went into his office side down and said, you
think you'd be good as a cupkeeper. You're interested? Sure? Okay,
(28:02):
that was it? Pretty much a couple of little things. Yeah,
that was it. So to our listeners out there, it's
pretty easy, pretty easy apparently. Yeah. Well, has the cup
ever spoken to you? I'm looking at it right now,
just when we're alone. Yeah, I'm sure. Does it have
a deep voice or more of a high pitched nasal.
It's kind of an old man kind of voice. Yeah.
(28:24):
H seven years old, that makes sense, and twenty seven
years old. We should all be so lucky. Yeah. Well,
with modern science and technology, we'll probably get there. I mean,
as I always say, the couple looks pretty good for
hundred twenty seven years old and parties harder than Keith Richards.
So have they have they? Any of the Rolling Stones
ever partied with the Standley Cup? But we have party
(28:45):
with a bunch of bands over the years, from Rush
to uh Rat not Rat bon Jovi, Wayne Newton, Yeah, Wayne,
we actually real Yeah yeah, Wayne. We were with Wayne
in Vegas last year. Was an awesome guy and we
actually had the cup in a convertible for him and
he drove down the strip and everything like that and
waving on all the people, and people would see the
cup first and then they go, oh my god, it's
(29:06):
Wayne Newton. Canada's way Newton. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Um,
I don't think he's from Leans. From Canada. She's seen
the Cup of Futures. What did she think of the cup?
She was? She was she's a big Montreal fan, um.
And her husband's a big hockey fan too. And their
friends with Pierre Lacroix, who was the former general manager
of the Colorado Avalanche. So uh, they were. The nickname
(29:28):
for the Canadians is the habs exactly? The habitants. The
habitants has its short form. Yeah, that's French. It's a
French thing. Yeah. I don't really much more than that. Yeah,
I don't know. Yeah. That kind of grounded everything doing old,
didn't it. Yeah, Well, none of us speak French. That's
(29:55):
Ron for a while told us he spoke flu in
French and it was gibberish, old, a little insulting, consulting
to my intelligence and your in your beat poetry second place. Well, Mike,
I don't know what to say. I'm still staring at
the glory of Lord Stanley right here. He was an
(30:16):
honor to meet you, honor to be in the presence
of the Cup. Uh, please keep in touch. And I
don't mean in the distant future. I mean, let us
know what you're doing tonight, getting on a red eye.
You want to come? Where are you going? Going to Raley,
North Carolina Fest tomorrow? Oh? Beer fest? Yes, let me see.
Carolina booked me on that same flight. We have to
(30:36):
record tomorrow. Oh okay, well we can postpone it. I
got I mean, look the look at the choice you're
presenting me. Stay here in the smelly studio and record
a podcast versus get on a red eye to Raleigh
for a beer fest with the Stanley Cup. Do your
job or go to a party. Yes, okay, we'll discuss.
(30:59):
We'll discuss later. Mike Michael, keeper of the Cup, thank
you for spending a wonderful amount of time with us here.
And I just I'm surprised you don't have armed security
with you. I just dropped the white gloves the third problem. Okay,
very good. We won't touch the We're not going to.
By the way, I'm not even gonna look at it
because I didn't win it. I understand, ladies and gentlemen.
(31:23):
We'll be right back with the Ron Burgundy Podcast right
after these messages, and we're back on the Ron Burgundy
Podcast with some final thoughts. I am a leader. Everyone
(31:46):
has said that to me at one point or another.
Once at McDonald's I was in line for a mc
rib and someone tapped me on the shoulder and said,
you're a leader. And I said, thank you, sir, I
know that. Then you can gave me some pamphlets. Turns
out he wanted me to join his cult. Long story short,
I did end up joining it, and it was a
(32:09):
very tough summer for me and my family. Anyway, Wait,
where was I You're a leader? Yes? While reading How
to Win Friends and Influence People, my new favorite book
next to Harry Potter, they gave me some tips on
how to be a leader, one of which was to
praise every improvement. Oh I like that. That's actually a
(32:32):
great management. I think so too. For instance, I love
how you didn't slur your words there, Carolina, And look
at your clothes. There's barely any crumbs of lunch on them.
Perhaps some improvement there. Okay, I see what's happening. The
book also says to ask questions instead of giving direct orders,
(32:53):
So maybe you guys, um, what do you think of
ending the episode now? And maybe we get a steak
for Ron with a Guinness in a cold glass. I
don't know, suggestions. Maybe after that, someone pulls my new
car around so I can check it out. That's not
we I can't tell you enough that you're not getting
(33:14):
a free car today, okay, but I am getting a
free blow up gorilla. Scott Painter told me that, yeah,
I know, okay, we'll get your new girl great. And
I also need the generator, you know. Oh, and I'm
going to need uh let's see, I'm going to need
(33:38):
a couple of hundred cans of gasoline to run the
gas generator. So Fair Auto is gonna have to chip
in on that too. I'll need a constant supply of
of I don't know. All you could do is ask, right, folks,
come on by my condo anytime you want. Can take
(34:00):
a photo with my blow up gorilla. H My house
is located on two to with a ten in the
four oh five Meat Great. Thanks, catch you next time
on the Ron Burgundy Podcast. The Ron Burgundy Podcast is
(34:22):
a production of I Heart Radio at Funnier Die. I'm
Ron Burgundy, the host, writer, and executive producer. Carolina Barlow
is my co host, writer and producer. Our producers are
Jack O'Brien, Nick Stuff, Miles Gray, and Whitney O. Day.
Our executive producer is Mike Ferrett. Our consulting producer is
Andrew Steele. Our coordinating producer makes Colin mcdooker. Our associate
(34:47):
producers are Anna Hosnier and Sophie Licht. Our writer is
Jake Foblemised. Our production coordinator is Hannah Jacobson. This episode
was engineered, mixed, and edited by Nick Stuff. Until next
I'm this is ron bergm
Who's that man joking in my ear? He's rung Burndy.
My dearest listeners, how is everyone this week feeling okay?
If you're listening at home, are you cozy under a blanket?
(00:23):
You might be in your family's minivan airing out the
cigar smoke because your parents get back into town. How's
that going? And here at the studio, Carolina, how you doing?
I'm good? Nick in the booth, you okay? Good? Family
is good, everybody's good. Thanks, great, and the temperature is
good in here. Sorry for all the questions. I'm not
(00:46):
trying to be a nosy Carolina. Not nosy Carolina, but
that's a phrase. Oh well, I just read a great book, Carolina.
You should check it out. It's called How to Win
Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It just came out.
O that book came out like a little over eighty
years and it's growing in popularity. I wanted to give
(01:09):
it a shout out on the podcast so more people
could hear about it. Oh, it's actually one of the
most popular books of all time. I think in it,
my new friend Dale list six ways to make people
like you, and it's it's not what you think you
don't have to bring a you know, a brick of
cocaine for the next game night. In fact, the first
thing Dale says is you have to become genuinely interested
(01:32):
in other people. Hence my questions today. Okay, is that
why you asked me if my nose was real when
I walked into I'm just saying, people have been talking, okay,
and we just know it used to be bigger, or
maybe it's the same size. I didn't do anything, so well,
(01:54):
it's still pretty outstanding. You have an outstanding nose. I
don't know how you mean that anyway. The second thing
Dale tells us to do is smile. Smile, smile, smile, smile, smile, smile. Okay,
please see I'm smiling too much. Just close your mouth.
(02:16):
Talk normally. It marks people love you. I'm gonna pay
you ten dollars to look normal, and I'll pay you
fifty to do the same. Okay. Thirdly, you have to
say a person's name a lot to them. It is
the sweetest and most important sound in any language. That's
certainly true. I actually fall asleep to a tape of
(02:39):
people saying my name. Different recordings of people at award
shows airport, loudspeakers, lawyers at my deposition hearings. Just get
me relaxed. Oh wow, well, maybe you know what. You
can use some of these skills to talk to the
CEO of Fair today. Who the CEO of Fair? A
(03:01):
representative affair? He's we're having them in for a few questions.
Oh okay, what's his name? He's walking in? Okay, quickly,
what's his name? Come on, Carolina, he's the money man
that he's in the room. His name is Scott, Scott Painter.
He's in the room, Scotty. Please, welcome to the studio.
Scott Painter. Thanks for joining us. Hey, Ron, how are you?
(03:22):
I'm great, I'm great. Thank you so much for coming in. Yes,
thank you. What a beautiful name, Scott Painter. Glorious to
the lips, Scott, Scotty, Scott, take it easy, ah, Scott, Yes,
Scott Painter. Never forget that name. We want you to
(03:42):
stop and keep going. Is it what's the origin of Painter?
Is that Dutch? I think it's a German and Scottish. Well,
we learned something new every day and thank you for
that information. Scott Painter, CEO, founder of Fair. And so
what what does fair Auto. Do Well, we are a
(04:05):
way to get a car entirely on your phone. Oh,
that's right, because we've been talking about that. Those are
the advertisements. Yes, anyway, you get the phone and you
get a car, you get a car. Well, it really
comes from just wanting to make the whole process of
getting a car a lot easier. Most people don't even
want to go into a dealership anymore, not anymore. No,
(04:25):
the idea of doing everything on your phone, just like
everything else in modern life, was really where the whole
thing started. A lot of dealerships frankly, they smell, you know, No,
I'm just saying they stink. Really, that's what I've come to.
I mean, I think they smell like new car, which
for people is usually oh I hate that smell. Oh
(04:49):
do you? In fact, just the thought of it, okay,
makes me want to vomit. That seems dramatic. Why don't
you take a sip of water and Scott Scott paid here,
he's here with us for just tuning in a lot
of people just tune into a podcast. Did you know that? Um,
(05:09):
just for my records? When does my car come? Scott? Well,
you've just got to get on your phone and pick
one out. No, no, no, I mean my free car,
the one I was promised. Who promised you that? Oh? Okay,
so it's a surprise. That's sweet. Okay, when I get
(05:29):
my free car, what should I do? Run? I don't
think that's happening. Okay, it's a surprise, um Scott. The
question is why do you like working at Fair? I mean,
you created it, so it's your baby. Well, but where
where's the satisfaction. I think great companies and great entrepreneurs
solve a problem, and I think buying and owning a
(05:50):
car is complicated, time consuming, frustrating, and most modern customers
just have said they don't want to do it anymore.
I mean we're all the hassle. Yeah, yeah, the confrontation,
the commits. So what we created was really a solution
for that that doesn't require any negotiation, any confrontation or commitment.
You can take the car for as long as you want,
and then when you're done with it, you just simply
(06:11):
let us know and we pick it up. What's the
shortest amount of time someone has leads to car for
if you had anyone to just for like five minutes.
It turns out when humans get a car that they like,
they sort of move into it. And even though we
don't have a term to our contract, the average customer
is keeping the car for almost two years. Wow. Ron
usually can't afford cars at dealerships, but he loves negotiating.
(06:33):
I don't know why we need to bring that up.
You've stayed at that dealership. I love. I love to haggle.
I love the back and forth, waste salesman's time for
hours and then says just kidding and leaves. I like
to go in. Let's say a car is being sold
for thirty five dollars. I like to go in. I'd
like to look them in. They they get excited because
(06:54):
it's round barrigunady of course, Um, and I'll go I've
got two grand cash and I'll slide it across the desk,
real slow, in a Manila envelope and they usually kick
me out. But um, but there's a thrill to that,
just for me. But you're saying most people, it's intimidating
(07:16):
to them. For most people, the average car costs about
a third of their net worth, so the car requires
financing as well. And the idea of going in and
you know, sort of negotiating with a dealer is certainly
something that modern consumers don't like a lot third of
their net worth. We'd love to have a net worth
in general. So as a result, most people end up
(07:38):
taking a car based on what they can afford on
a monthly basis. All the cars that we've got in
the app are presented on an all in, month to
month basis, so the car comes with a warranty, roadside assistance,
and standard maintenance, so you don't have to worry about
any of that. And we now also even offer auto insurance,
so it's truly a single cost of ownership except for fuel.
(07:59):
Let me ask this question, what if someone has a
negative reaction to their car and destroys it? Have you
have you come across that. I mean they just beat
up the car exactly. They take out a tire iron
and they just smashed the windshield, and it's like, oh,
they tricked me. I never wanted this car. I don't
(08:21):
think that would be good for anybody. That's not good
for us. And probably what you'll catch either, right, you'll
catch them. Ultimately, we will get there. I knew it.
They're going to get you, So don't do that any
Herbie fully loaded situations Herbie fully loaded where the car
goes to life? Oh right right? Was that a Disney movie? Yeah?
(08:43):
And then it was a Lindsay lowhand remake. I want
to get back to my car that I'm getting my
gift car? What color is it? Can you guys just
tell me? So? Is it going to have a ribbon
on it? I want I don't know if this is
a conversation for now, and when I I it, can
I keep the ribbon on it to show off that
I got a free car. I want you to be
(09:04):
prepared for there to be no car in what scenario
and and the scenario of reality. I want you to
be prepared for a car not to show up today. Okay,
I'm gonna put air quotes around that. Um Scott, do
you miss One of the great things about car dealerships
(09:25):
are the the you know, the the inflatable floppy man.
You know what I'm talking about. That gets your attention listeners.
You you probably will picture. How would you describe the
inflatable floppy man? Carolina? A body of skin without a
spine or bones in it? Yes, you see it end
and that's something or you'll see like an inflatable gorilla
(09:46):
or something like that. You know at at dealer do
do you get feedback that people are missing seeing those things?
They're still out there, believe it or not. The way
that our our business works is we rely on dealers
as partners, but we buy the car from them and
simultaneously let our users use the vehicles so they don't
have to go through any of the complication or the
(10:07):
confrontation with the dealer. We handle all of that. I
want to get one of those inflatable guerrillas just to
put out in front of my condo. That I think
we can do, though, we can arrange for that because
they're not in demand nearly as much anymore. Okay, So
if I'm not going to get a free car from
you guys, free guerrilla would be I mean to have
that generator blowing throughout the night. Go Go, Go, Go
(10:31):
Go definite. But I think that I think that's a
nice trade off to have a fun inflatable guerrilla for
the whole neighborhood to enjoy. It will be a conversation. So, Scott,
what what else would you like our listeners to know
about Fair Auto? You know, I think that the idea
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of going into debt to buy a car, which is
what we all have to do. Um. The car is,
for the most part, nine cars are a depreciating asset. Absolutely,
you drive it off the lot, it plummets. It does.
And almost all the risk in the car business has
been shifted to consumers over the last hundred years. We
make them go get a car loan and go into
debt to cover all that risk. And I think the
(11:17):
idea of becoming obligated to a car is really going
to be obsolete. I think the idea of being able
to get access to mobility on a month to month
basis just like everything else in modern life. UM. I
have a sixteen year old son. He went through the
whole process and he was just like dad before fair
how did kids get cars? And it makes a ton
(11:37):
of sense. I mean, he doesn't have a job, he
didn't have a bank account, he just got his driver's license.
He goes through all these things and now all of
a sudden he can get access to a car with
any kind of credit history and he pays month to month.
It's a great way for him to get a vehicle
until he gets ready to go to college. Can you
use PayPal? You can use any form of payment that's
different Venmo, PayPal, Apple, pay all of It, pokers, anything
(12:01):
that we can do to get so poker chips from
a casino. I think ultimately we got to look into
every public good. Ron has a velvet bag of a
velvet bag I have. I have a prediction that's going
to be the currency of the future is poker chips
from Las Vegas casinos. You had an amazing night in Vegas,
(12:22):
did and you just forgot to cash your chips. I
was on such a roll, Scott, Oh my gosh, I
was at the crabs table for eleven hours. You are
a diaper. I wore a diaper, and oddly enough, this
is the first time we've met. But I kept screaming
at the top of my lungs, Scott Pater as I
threw the dice. Yeah. I don't remember that part, but
(12:44):
I believe you. Okay, I made that up. I was
just trying to impress you. But yeah, I made about
fifty dollars and I keep it in my mattress. And
you said, no, I have to go. I have to
take off my diaper as soon as possible. And I said,
maybe you want to cash out your chick, no should
go yeah. Well, but with a company like Fair you
get to keep the fifty yes and then just get
the car on an as needed basis. So the auto
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industry are they mad at you for what you've created.
We're actually a sale to a car dealer or to
the manufacturer, so they're actually quite happy. They don't have
to pay for advertising, which is usually the largest expense
in selling a car. So when we buy a car
from a dealer, it's a sale for them without any
advertising expense. I remember when I was living down in
(13:27):
San Diego, I used to record jingles for Phil Everton
Ford and that was part of their big advertising budget.
Phil Everton Ford, It's a great day to buy a Ford.
Phil Everton, and this was a career. I just what
do you mean? It was No, it was augmented my
(13:48):
salary as a broadcaster. Got it. Come on down to
Phil Everton. He won't cheat you. He's honest, Phil. I
love it. Phil Everton. He he's honest. Even though he
only has one leg. He had he only had one leg,
and he wanted that in the jingle. Well I improvised
that one yeah, and I made sure they couldn't erase
(14:11):
the tapes, and then I said, if you don't use
this one, I'll sue you. But that's what I had
a lot of juice back then. Yeah. Um, Scott, we
can't thank you enough for coming in talking to us,
enlightening us, enlightening us. It's it's it sounds like an
amazing service, very easy. Can let me ask you this
(14:32):
final question? What if I were to purchase I guess
it's technically, Elise, it's it's technically elease or rental depending
on the state that you live in. Um, but you
know both are the same thing. You're not buying the car,
you're paying for the depreciation on a monthly basis. So
if I if I get my new car, I'm so excited.
And then I opened the trunk and I find a
(14:53):
couple of kilos of cocaine. Do what happens? Then? Do
I get? Is that? Is that a problem that's been
happen It's it's not been a problem yet, Okay, until
we should think about all the possibilities out there that
could happen. Well, Scott Painter, thank you so much. CEO
(15:14):
and founder of Fair Auto with a beautiful name, Scott Painter,
Scott thank you for coming in and visiting us here
in person. Ron, thanks for having me and uh. I
think we could probably work something out on that car
if you really go into the pick something. Okay, make
a big deal out of that. I think that could
work out interesting. Well, Oh so Carolina, you're wrong. I
(15:35):
am getting a free car, maybe for a month or two,
you know what, something like that. If it's for one hour.
If I can rub it into Carolina's face that I
got a free car, I would dance a jig. Scott,
thanks again, thanks for coming in, and we'll be right
back after this and welcome back to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. Okay,
(16:04):
raise your hands if you like sports. Okay, I see
some hands. Now, clap your hands if you like trophies.
Any trophy lovers in the house here. So when was
the last time you want a trophy? Carolina? I don't
want to say. Oh, come on, just tell you know.
(16:26):
We're family here. Um at one second place at the
Sarah Lawrence Slam Poetry Contest. Jesus Christ, Okay, forget I asked, well,
we have such a treat. The Stanley Cup is the
oldest trophy in sports history, still being competed for by
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professional athletes and I am literally looking at it right
now in all of its glory. It's amazing. It's on
the table right next to me. And of course we
have with us today Mike Bolt. Mike is the keeper
of the cup. He is the man in charge, and
today we get an inside scoop on how he manages
(17:07):
to guard that cup, the Stanley Cup. Mike, thank you
for joining us here on the podcast. Ron, thanks for
having us The Stanley Cup. Wow. Well, I mean every
day you wake up, you turn and look at that thing,
right because you have to be around a twenty four hours. Yeah,
I sleep with one eye open all night. You're very vigilant.
(17:30):
I had to guard it every day, Which leads me
to my first question, Um, do you think you're trustworthy?
Trustworthy enough to guard this? I don't put I guess
the NHL in the Hall of Fame do because you
are being trusted with this outstanding I mean, does that
ever make you kind of, you know, lose your mind slightly?
(17:51):
Actually it does sometimes, Yes, I mean especially when we're
traveling and flying around. Uh just the other day we
couldn't find it in Denver and it was a little stress.
Oh den Yeah, we were in Denver doing some press
and bouncing around promoting the playoffs, and uh, I get
to Denver and waiting for the bag to come out,
and it's not there. It's not there, and I'm like, okay,
(18:11):
So I go and start dealing with the airlines and
they can't tell me where it is. And so luckily
I have a contact with Air Canada and I picked
up the phone and they could tell me where it
was and apparently it was in Denver, but it was
stuck on Wow, the Caver belt. Did you ask the
officials there the Denver boat to shut the airport down?
I did, actually, but they didn't didn't listen, okay, because
that's what I would have run out onto the tarmac
(18:33):
and tried to stop planes from landing. You know, it's
funny when when we're in the airport, so I do
open it up, and it's always amazing to see the reaction.
Just actually, when I flying up to come up here
last night, I was checking in, it was really quiet
and I took it out for two employees to see it.
Within literally twenty seconds, there was about people around. They
(18:54):
just got just it's such a yeah, it's such a
it's a magnet. I mean, it just attracts people. And
I been doing this for twenty years, I kind of
know better, but I just laugh. I'm like, oops, that's
my mistake. I mean, when you brought this beautiful trophy
into our recording studio here, I squealed like a fourteen
year old girl. It was weird. It was like I
(19:15):
thought you had stepped on something. You thought I'd seen
a ghost, because that's how I react if I ever
see a go I see a lot of ghosts. Yes,
and that's with you that one time. That's what usually. Um.
Have you heard of an ice jackal before? By the way, No,
I haven't. Okay, well let's just leave it at that. UM,
now correct me if I'm wrong. But I've heard that
(19:36):
this trophy is so revered, revered, revered, revered by NHL
players that many who have not won it they refused
to be in its presence. Is that is that accurate?
Pretty true? I mean there are players that come around
it but won't touch it. Um, quick story. Scott had
(19:57):
won three Stanley Cup Scott need Amer, he loves the
podcast Go Ahead, O excellent and his brother Rob when
they won together and oh seven, we were up at
their their summer house up in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and
Rob kept telling people I love it up there by
the absolutely gorgeous. Is that cottage country? Is that the
same as a cottage country? That's God's country? Okay, alright,
have you ever been to yellow Knife? I have? Okay, continue, Yeah,
(20:21):
I got a time share and yellow great, Um, Carolina,
you would love yellow Knife. They're flat and cold and flat,
yeah exactly, but it's it's a cool place. That's my
body type, flat and cold. Nothing. But Rob is telling
everybody they'd never touched the cup, and when his brother
brought it back and I said, well that's not true. Rob,
(20:41):
you kept kind of rubbing up against it, maybe not
on purpose, and you know, so the superstition of touching it,
you know, didn't really affect you because you obviously wanted No. Seven.
But there are players that definitely will not touch it
until they win it, and guys that have retired still
feel weird about being around it. Meaning the players who
were retired who didn't didn't win, they're like, yeah, Wendell
Clarke played for Toronto, great player. UM when he first retired,
(21:05):
didn't want to do a picture with it. He says
he'll do pictures, but he will still not touch because
I never want it. I will never touch the Stanley Cup.
For the female listeners out here, I feel like we
should follow any hockey player's name with single or in
a relationship, okay, because you find them dreamy, don't you?
Who is the dreaming this guy in the NHL Carolina
frequently goes to King's games and she loves blowing kisses
(21:27):
at the players on the ice. There's a rugged handsomeness
to hockey players. They look like they could build you
a house and and get into an unprovoked fight for you.
Now it knows you have you have white gloves on.
You have to handle the cup with white gloves. Yes,
it's part of the prestige, the respect for it, the protocol. Yeah,
(21:49):
I I didn't win it. I just look after it.
And you don't You want to make sure that people
when you're carrying it outside of the buildings and you
know in the public, people know that it's you're the keeper,
not the guy that wanted and the white gloves. You
mentioned protocol. But I also read somewhere in my research
that it's because, uh, once someone was eating peanut butter
out of a jar and they were like, oh dude,
(22:11):
look it's a standy cup and they grabbed it and
they got peanut butter all over it. Is that I've
heard that story, but that's get a lot of stuff
all over it. I mean ice cream Sundays are eating
out of it. So there's been some close calls. Oh yeah,
a lot of ice cream in the summer, a lot
of cereal out of it, and a lot of adult
beverages from Margarita's beer, champagne wine spritters have been made
in it. I'm thinking right now, a Scotch chips and
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guacamole fill that ramful of guacamole. Lobster bisc has been
in there. Uh, putine, which is French fries, sushi babies,
A couple of babies have been baptized in it. That's adorable.
That we had a penguin in there once, a little
baby peng Did someone steal a baby penguin? We went
(22:56):
to a zoo, Yeah, we did, the Pittsburgh Zoo. Actually,
you guys told it. They brought it over to it.
They got back with his mommy. Well that's what they
told you. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire any connection?
No good question. That is a good question. Actually, But
you do you do like Harry Potter though, I mean
(23:17):
you can't say you don't. J K Rally. I mean
she had a dollar to her name and she created
a whole world. I mean, if you say anything about
j K, you're gonna hear about it. Goblet of Fire,
great one. Have you ever gone to the supermarket, picked
up a few things, come home and then realized you
left the Stanley cup in an apple barrel? You can
(23:41):
be honest because we can addit to what we actually
have taken it to the supermarket a couple of times.
I did it. Once with Doug Waite in uh Long Island.
The White family wanted to reenact the picture of Angeelie
Jolie doing they get through something on the tabloids, and
they wanted to reenact the shopping cart thing with the
cup in it, and so we did that, and then
with Billy Aaron, who was an assistant GM with Pittsburgh,
(24:02):
brought it to the supermarket to pick up some beer
for his parties. We had the cup in the middle
of the cart and loaded all the beer around the
cup along with a couple of bags of chips and
then getting the reaction when you're going shopping with the Stanley.
The cup was pretty cool, but he's got to turn
a few heads. Yeah, but we didn't leave it in
the apple sections. Billy Garran's party too. I forgot. They
were bobbing for apples out of the cup to Billy.
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Typical Billy Garran. You know, Billy has the craziest party,
he really does. I've never been invited, but they are
good parties. Why why is it called Stanley? Why not
Seymour or Ralphie. It's called Stanley because of Lord Stanley
was a gentleman who bought the trophy in eighteen forty
dollars and sixty seven cents. Was he a real lord
or would you Jesus call himself Lord Stanley? Lord? And
(24:46):
now he was a he was a real lord. Uh.
He was from Preston, England. His actual family seal is
on the cup. He was a Governor General of Canada
back in the late eighteen hundreds. And it was his
children actually that convinced their dad to buy the trophy
for the Amateur Hockey Association. And another little trivia effect
that no one really because he hated hockey himself. He
really didn't know it. But his kids grew up playing
(25:07):
the game in Canada, coming over from England. The kids
loved the game and then their their father kind of
got liked it. And Lord Sanders like, this game will
never survive, I declare it. He actually never saw the
trophy even presented in He was always back, he went
back to he was already back in England doing whatever
he did, his Lord's stuff back in Anger Night people.
(25:28):
He never saw the cup presented ever. And he's the
only member of the Hockey All of Fame that had
nothing to do with hockey other than donating the trophy. Wow,
Lord Stanley, well, I'm sure he's smiling down on the
cup right now. We actually took it over to England
and oh six and put a plaque on the building
and no one came and visited, right. Actually was pretty crazy.
All the press was there and and stuff like that,
(25:51):
and we had a lot of the hockey fans and
this tour bus was going by and after Phil and I,
my boss Phil Pritchard, had done some press, we stuck
back and this tour bus went by and somebody goes,
what's going on, and Phil goes Prince Williams in buying
a ring or something like that. This is way before
he got married, and so he started the big stir
that thinking Prince william was getting engaged. Prince I was
not invited to the royal wedding, tried to sneak in, Mike,
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what is your favorite part of a hockey game? For me,
I'll just say mine's the music. I love the Oregan music.
Don't Done Done? Yeah, don't ye wine would be uh
favorite part of a game. I mean in playoffs, it's
overtime for sure. Overtime hockey, sudden death for those of
you who don't adine the adrenaline. Yeah, yeah, we get
(26:38):
five minutes of in the regular season and then we
have sudden death right to I mean a couple of
nights ago we had two overtime periods. Um, that's a
lot of hockey. That's a lot of hockey. I mean
we played normally sixty minutes. Some guys sometimes we can
play a hundred twenty minutes of hockey and one night
and then the guys, I don't know how they do,
they gotta play the next night. A lot of times. Yeah,
it's uh it's a lot of wear and tear on
their bodies. I remember one time one of the guys
(26:59):
in Chicago is telling me, when they're flying back from
a game they're they're playing, look like an emergency room
with all the I V s and ice pack slash
guys getting stitched on the plane. I mean, there was
blood gauzes everywhere, and one guy had his gallbladder taken
out right Peter Forsberg the black market and they and
they didn't have enough surgeons, so a lot of the
(27:20):
players operated on each other. That's what I read. Oh
my god, they are tough, tough ombreise. So Mike, what
I mean, what do you say to those dreamers out
there who are listening and they want to travel the
world with Stanley one day? Come come to the hockey
allow fan, We'll get a job and maybe I'll be
(27:41):
fortunate enough to be one of there's a training program,
there's a apprenticeship. It's huge. You know, this job took
me all three minutes to get. Okay, the people know
my boss called well, my now, boss, I was in
the office. You got a minute, And I was like sure.
I went into his office side down and said, you
think you'd be good as a cupkeeper. You're interested? Sure? Okay,
(28:02):
that was it? Pretty much a couple of little things. Yeah,
that was it. So to our listeners out there, it's
pretty easy, pretty easy apparently. Yeah. Well, has the cup
ever spoken to you? I'm looking at it right now,
just when we're alone. Yeah, I'm sure. Does it have
a deep voice or more of a high pitched nasal.
It's kind of an old man kind of voice. Yeah.
(28:24):
H seven years old, that makes sense, and twenty seven
years old. We should all be so lucky. Yeah. Well,
with modern science and technology, we'll probably get there. I mean,
as I always say, the couple looks pretty good for
hundred twenty seven years old and parties harder than Keith Richards.
So have they have they? Any of the Rolling Stones
ever partied with the Standley Cup? But we have party
(28:45):
with a bunch of bands over the years, from Rush
to uh Rat not Rat bon Jovi, Wayne Newton, Yeah, Wayne,
we actually real Yeah yeah, Wayne. We were with Wayne
in Vegas last year. Was an awesome guy and we
actually had the cup in a convertible for him and
he drove down the strip and everything like that and
waving on all the people, and people would see the
cup first and then they go, oh my god, it's
(29:06):
Wayne Newton. Canada's way Newton. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Um,
I don't think he's from Leans. From Canada. She's seen
the Cup of Futures. What did she think of the cup?
She was? She was she's a big Montreal fan, um.
And her husband's a big hockey fan too. And their
friends with Pierre Lacroix, who was the former general manager
of the Colorado Avalanche. So uh, they were. The nickname
(29:28):
for the Canadians is the habs exactly? The habitants. The
habitants has its short form. Yeah, that's French. It's a
French thing. Yeah. I don't really much more than that. Yeah,
I don't know. Yeah. That kind of grounded everything doing old,
didn't it. Yeah, Well, none of us speak French. That's
(29:55):
Ron for a while told us he spoke flu in
French and it was gibberish, old, a little insulting, consulting
to my intelligence and your in your beat poetry second place. Well, Mike,
I don't know what to say. I'm still staring at
the glory of Lord Stanley right here. He was an
(30:16):
honor to meet you, honor to be in the presence
of the Cup. Uh, please keep in touch. And I
don't mean in the distant future. I mean, let us
know what you're doing tonight, getting on a red eye.
You want to come? Where are you going? Going to Raley,
North Carolina Fest tomorrow? Oh? Beer fest? Yes, let me see.
Carolina booked me on that same flight. We have to
(30:36):
record tomorrow. Oh okay, well we can postpone it. I
got I mean, look the look at the choice you're
presenting me. Stay here in the smelly studio and record
a podcast versus get on a red eye to Raleigh
for a beer fest with the Stanley Cup. Do your
job or go to a party. Yes, okay, we'll discuss.
(30:59):
We'll discuss later. Mike Michael, keeper of the Cup, thank
you for spending a wonderful amount of time with us here.
And I just I'm surprised you don't have armed security
with you. I just dropped the white gloves the third problem. Okay,
very good. We won't touch the We're not going to.
By the way, I'm not even gonna look at it
because I didn't win it. I understand, ladies and gentlemen.
(31:23):
We'll be right back with the Ron Burgundy Podcast right
after these messages, and we're back on the Ron Burgundy
Podcast with some final thoughts. I am a leader. Everyone
(31:46):
has said that to me at one point or another.
Once at McDonald's I was in line for a mc
rib and someone tapped me on the shoulder and said,
you're a leader. And I said, thank you, sir, I
know that. Then you can gave me some pamphlets. Turns
out he wanted me to join his cult. Long story short,
I did end up joining it, and it was a
(32:09):
very tough summer for me and my family. Anyway, Wait,
where was I You're a leader? Yes? While reading How
to Win Friends and Influence People, my new favorite book
next to Harry Potter, they gave me some tips on
how to be a leader, one of which was to
praise every improvement. Oh I like that. That's actually a
(32:32):
great management. I think so too. For instance, I love
how you didn't slur your words there, Carolina, And look
at your clothes. There's barely any crumbs of lunch on them.
Perhaps some improvement there. Okay, I see what's happening. The
book also says to ask questions instead of giving direct orders,
(32:53):
So maybe you guys, um, what do you think of
ending the episode now? And maybe we get a steak
for Ron with a Guinness in a cold glass. I
don't know, suggestions. Maybe after that, someone pulls my new
car around so I can check it out. That's not
we I can't tell you enough that you're not getting
(33:14):
a free car today, okay, but I am getting a
free blow up gorilla. Scott Painter told me that, yeah,
I know, okay, we'll get your new girl great. And
I also need the generator, you know. Oh, and I'm
going to need uh let's see, I'm going to need
(33:38):
a couple of hundred cans of gasoline to run the
gas generator. So Fair Auto is gonna have to chip
in on that too. I'll need a constant supply of
of I don't know. All you could do is ask, right, folks,
come on by my condo anytime you want. Can take
(34:00):
a photo with my blow up gorilla. H My house
is located on two to with a ten in the
four oh five Meat Great. Thanks, catch you next time
on the Ron Burgundy Podcast. The Ron Burgundy Podcast is
(34:22):
a production of I Heart Radio at Funnier Die. I'm
Ron Burgundy, the host, writer, and executive producer. Carolina Barlow
is my co host, writer and producer. Our producers are
Jack O'Brien, Nick Stuff, Miles Gray, and Whitney O. Day.
Our executive producer is Mike Ferrett. Our consulting producer is
Andrew Steele. Our coordinating producer makes Colin mcdooker. Our associate
(34:47):
producers are Anna Hosnier and Sophie Licht. Our writer is
Jake Foblemised. Our production coordinator is Hannah Jacobson. This episode
was engineered, mixed, and edited by Nick Stuff. Until next
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